Baseball Time in Arlington wonders if Cliff Lee imparted some wisdom to C.J. Wilson:

There’s been some discussion of a student-mentor relationship existing between Wilson and Lee since the latter’s arrival in Texas last month, one presumably revolving around Lee imparting morsels of knowledge to Wilson on approach, delivery, pitch grips, mental acuity and so forth. Since then, I’ve noticed several single-game strike zone maps — including yesterday’s — from Wilson where a preponderance of his pitches have been targeted towards the strike zone’s outer third against both left- and right-handed batters; I’ve also rewound back to several of his successful pre-Cliff Lee starts earlier this season, and couldn’t detect such an apparent pattern in his pitch locations.

Since Lee arrived, Wilson posted a good ERA, but the results are mixed. He pitched well in two starts against Boston, but he just may matchup well with that team for some reason (the Red Sox hit LHP and RHP about the same). He did cut an already low home rate by more than half, but his walk rate rose. He only walked one against the Red Sox, so maybe the Lee lessons are finally getting through in that regard.